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• Leadership is simple: Add value to people everyday.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  People, Everyday, Add

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• Is it love that connects us, is that what it is? I never knew that the feeling I have is regular old love because it's so-intricate. Perhaps there is another name for it, one we don't yet know. I used to think that love was simple and noticeable, like rain falling, so that just as you'd look at your skin and say Water, you would also wake in the morning and say Love. But it has been underneath, this new and old thing I feel, subterranean, silent and steady, like blood, rushing along and along without often making itself known.

  Jane Hamilton

  Morning, Fall, Rain

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• Lobsters displays all three of the classic biological characteristics of an insect, namely: 1. It has way more legs than necessary. 2. There is no way you would ever pet it. 3. It does not respond to simple commands such as "Here, boy!"

  Dave Barry

  Boys, Pet, Doe

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.110, Ballantine Books

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• One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.

  Guy Finley

  Practice, Important, Principles

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• Good Deeds Day is based on a simple idea that every person can do a good deed for the benefit of others and the planet. Even a smile that brightens someone else's day is a good deed. I initiated Good Deeds Day to spread the message that everyone can give of themselves, according to their heart's desire.

  Shari Arison

  Heart, Ideas, Kind Deeds

  "Women in Business Q&A: Shari Arison, Owner the Arison Group" by Laura Dunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2014.

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• There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.

  Beatrice Warde

  Wise, Men, Discipline

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• Be simple and reliable

  Jan Koum

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• Rummy is the best-known of all card games played in the United States. Its popularity is due partly to the fact that it is so simple. Any person with a knowledge of the basic game can easily learn any form of it.

  Albert H. Morehead

  Games, Facts, United States

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• It takes a long time to make it simple.

  David Hockney

  Long, Long Time

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• When we talked about Socrates, we saw how dangerous it could be to appeal to people's reason. With Jesus we see how dangerous it can be to demand unconditional forgiveness. Even in the world of today, we can see how mighty powers can come apart at the seams when confronted with simple demands for peace, love, food for the poor, and amnesty for the enemies of the state.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Jesus, People, Enemy

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.

  Richard Rohr

  Climbing, Games, Circles

  "Gender, God and Spirituality" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2012.

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• Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.

  Wayne Muller

  Taken, Together, Gestures

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• The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love Is, Giving, Want

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• I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around the world and I want to have close contact with these people. I want to contribute to harmony and peace of mind, for less conflict. Wherever the possibililty is, I'm ready. This is my life's goal.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Years, People

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• The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and the same desire for happiness, and not suffering, and the consideration that you as one individual are one life unit as compared with the mulititude of others in their ceaseless quest for happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Suffering, Desire, Quests

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• Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

  Alfred Marshall

  Book, Doctrine, Topics

  Alfred Marshall (2015). “The Early Economic Writings of Alfred Marshall, 1867–1890”, p.82, Springer

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• Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

  Alfie Kohn

  Team, Player, Demand

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• A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.

  Alain de Botton

  Ambition, Destiny, Problem

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• Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Complexes

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• I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

  Mark Twain

  Flower, Writing, Plain Language

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.65, Chartwell

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• My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Thinking, Long

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• Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of evolution. As new patters evolve they come into conflict with old ones. Each stage of evolution creates in its wake a wash of problems.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Patterns, Morality

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could not establish a universal law because he had not observed every falling apple, much less proved the law of gravity - there might, after all, be an apple that levitates! Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry?

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Fall, Apples

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• The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.

  Jack Dorsey

  Lessons, Keep It Simple

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• For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple.

  Jack Welch

  Organization

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